08 September 2007

Clock King has no super-powers or abilities other then an absolute sense of time and timing. He is a master planner and sometimes uses clock-themed gadgetry. Ol' CK was originally an enemy of Green Arrow, but has become more identified by his appearances in Justice League International and Suicide Squad. He was featured as a foe of the Bat in the 1960's live action Batman as well as in Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. He has yet to appear in any theatrical incarnation.

Born William Tockman, Clock King took dutiful care of his invalid sister, when one day he found out from a doctor's visit that he himself only had six months to live. Despairing for his sister's future, he watched the timing of a local bank's vault in order to rob it, hoping the money would provide for his sister after he was gone. His caper would have gone successfully, had he not tripped a silent alarm and was then caught by the Green Arrow.

While he was incarcerated, his sister died without him. In further hideous irony, Tockman discovered that he really wasn't ill and was not going to die in the next six months: his doctor had accidentally switched his papers with those of another patient. Infuriated, he escaped to futilely attempt revenge on the Green Arrow.

In Batman: The Animated Series the Clock King was recreated as Temple Fugate, the name being a play on the Latin phrase 'tempus fugit,' meaning 'time flies.' The character first appeared in the episode "The Clock King" and later returned in the episode "Time Out of Joint". Fugate was written as a stiff, efficiency expert, obsessed with both punctuality and revenge against Gotham City mayor Hamilton Hill, whose "advice" on how to relax before an important court date cost the Clock King his company.

According to IGN and other, there is a live-action Robotech movie in the works starring Peter Parker AKA Tobey McGuire.

IGN describes the movie as:

a "sprawling sci-fi epic," and reveals that it takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots. Maguire would presumably play one of the pilots.

Looks like we will be getting plenty of Giant ****ing Robots in the future thanks to the success of the Transformers. I for one am cool with that.